Why YSK: DON’T bring it somewhere to ‘save’ it unless it’s in immediate danger - you’re probably just kidnapping it from its mom. People find baby deer or rabbits with no parents nearby and think they’re abandoned, so they bring them to shelters to try to “save them”. In reality they’re just forcibly separating the animal from its mother and greatly reducing its survival chances.

Infant rabbits without their mothers don’t do well. Even in professional care settings, they have about a 90% mortality rate. Taking them away from the nest should be a last resort, only when death is guaranteed otherwise.

  • WaffleFriends
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    71 year ago

    Found a little doe next to the library on campus a couple of weeks ago. Had to convince the other people that were also looking at the doe that it was probably fine and that it hadn’t been abandoned.